Today is a sort of cartoonists’ holiday. Nobody takes Groundhog Day seriously, except the Chamber of Commerce in Punxsutawney, obviously, but there it is and gag cartoonists can pop out something and enjoy a short day.Editorial cartoonists can get their compensation sometime later in the year by showing Bill Murray waking up to another round […]
I was prepared to jump right into this very non-comical story, and the AAEC has released a statement on it, but I didn’t find enough cartoons this morning on the topic, so it’ll have to wait. But Slyngstad dropped two commentaries, this light-hearted iconic one and a more serious one that you’ll see when more […]
It’s getting really hard to avoid politics on Hump Day, but, then again, everything Roz Chast does is political in the wider, sociopolitical sense. It’s generally true anyway, because even a Three Stooges pie fight is based on working class hatred of the wealthy and privileged.There’s a kind of John Oliver/Jimmy Kimmel penetrative insight going […]
When I was the at-home parent, I did most of my writing at night, and I had a clock on my desk set for 12:30, in part because I needed the reminder to get to bed, but also, as Kim notes, as a matter of quality control. Anything I wrote much after 12:30 was going […]
It happens, and I’m leading off with Clay Jones’ version because he acknowledged what is known in the trade as a “Yahtzee.” I hate it when another cartoonist does the same idea that I draw, but honestly, this one doesn’t surprise me, as this might be an obvious joke. Oh well. If similar cartoons drop within […]
Tank raises the popular question of why football coaches are better paid at Div I schools than professors, and then half answers it. Filling the stadium is a good source of revenue, but teams only play a half-dozen home games, so that the Colorado Buffalos, who apparently have the most expensive tickets at $517 but […]
We’ll start with my annual Grinchy reminder that it was Linus, not Charlie Brown, who cut all those eyeholes into his sheet. This was Halloween, 1956, when Linus and Schroeder were still toddlers, before they hit the cutoff age where Peanuts characters stopped growing.However, it’s like Star Wars in that things are “canonical” rather than […]
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. … And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think […]
I’ve seen this Paul Noth cartoon before, but he’s run it on his current blog and it seems timely though I wish it didn’t. There’s also a social media comment that seems applicable: “Elect a clown, expect a circus,” though he’s wrong: We’re not the only ones who don’t find things so funny.This Sipress piece […]
I often have to pause and decide whether to put a Paul Noth piece in the political folder or the humor folder. Even his cartoons that don’t seem to reference a particular politician have significant bite.Obviously, this one hints at a specific person, but it contains an element of plausible deniability, not that cartoonists need […]
Constant Readers know how I sneer at talk about Gen X and Gen Y and all that. The Baby Boom was about a large number of kids coming at roughly the same time after WWII, and there are demographic ideas to be pulled from it. The other day, I was remembering a news article I […]
Banx offers a wait-a-minute gag. My first response is that it would indeed be good if we could use old, renewable energy in place of the power-suck that happens at data centers. Then the wait-a-minute hit, because, obviously, if we were still running everything on hydropower, we wouldn’t be creating gigantic masses of data. We […]
Might as well start this morning’s collection of funny comics with one that didn’t make me laugh. Harry Bliss often features rural beauty, and this one brought back a memory.I was doing a light Sunday feature about people with side jobs, one of whom was an old guy in Upper Jay whose yard contained racks […]
San Diego Comic Con is over, and I had to look up the San Diego Chicken to see if he was still around and he is, though Ted Giannoulas is now 71 and has to limit the physical comedy a bit.I think SDCC is like Grateful Dead concerts (were) and Mardi Gras in New Orleans […]
Back at the dawn of time, when I was in college, there was a mynah at the Kresge’s department store in South Bend with a fairly large vocabulary. In addition to saying “I’m a pretty bird,” and “I can talk. Can you fly?” he had absorbed a number of phrases from the customers who stopped […]